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Table 3 Regression of migration status and monthly wages

From: Are migrants in large cities underpaid? Evidence from Vietnam

Explanatory variables

Probit: dependent variable is “overall migration”

Probit: dependent variable is “short-term migration”

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

Migration (migrant = 1, non-migrant = 0)

  

0.0164

 
   

[0.0248]

 

Short-term migration (short-term migrant = 1, other individuals = 0)

   

−0.029

   

[0.0314]

Age

−0.0589***

−0.0605***

0.0698***

0.0686***

 

[0.0069]

[0.0108]

[0.0090]

[0.0091]

Age squared

  

−0.0009***

−0.0009***

   

[0.0001]

[0.0001]

Sex (male = 1; female = 0)

−0.1471

−0.0876

0.2201***

0.2198***

 

[0.1048]

[0.1513]

[0.0232]

[0.0232]

Never married (yes = 1)

0.2734**

0.6248***

−0.1098***

−0.1084***

 

[0.1228]

[0.1733]

[0.0286]

[0.0285]

Urban (urban = 1; rural = 0)

0.5531***

0.3824**

0.0919***

0.0944***

 

[0.1286]

[0.1919]

[0.0230]

[0.0225]

Hanoi (yes = 1)

0.0323

0.8329***

−0.0800***

−0.0786***

 

[0.1111]

[0.1883]

[0.0237]

[0.0238]

No degree

Reference

   

Primary

−0.0928

0.1652

0.067

0.0678

 

[0.2709]

[0.3499]

[0.0601]

[0.0599]

Lower secondary

−0.4352*

−0.2894

0.1566***

0.1548***

 

[0.2484]

[0.3346]

[0.0562]

[0.0562]

Upper secondary

−1.1291***

−1.1008***

0.3288***

0.3232***

 

[0.2581]

[0.3682]

[0.0572]

[0.0574]

Post secondary

−1.9677***

−2.6512***

0.9042***

0.8957***

 

[0.2651]

[0.4136]

[0.0615]

[0.0616]

Constant

1.3528***

−0.7005

6.1532***

6.1869***

 

[0.3425]

[0.5561]

[0.1647]

[0.1661]

Observations

3778

3778

3778

3778

R-squared

0.14

0.16

0.40

0.40

  1. Note: Non-migrants are individuals who have a registration book in Hanoi or HCMC. Migrants are individuals who do not have a registration book in the cities. Short-term migrants are migrants who have lived in the cities since 2008. Post-secondary education degrees include college, bachelor, and above. Robust standard errors in brackets (standard errors are corrected for sampling weights and cluster correlation)
  2. *Significant at 10 %; **significant at 5 %; ***significant at 1 %
  3. Source: Estimation from the 2009 UPS